The Pool is the twenty-second episode of the first season of Bluey.
Synopsis[]
While packing for the pool, Bluey and her Dad tease Mum about being so fussy with what to take, But when they arrive under prepared, they realize that a little planning goes a long way.
Episode Recap[]
lifelesson: Boring things are important too.
It’s a very hot Queensland day and Chilli and the kids are hanging out in the lounge room. Bluey, as is typical of a child, is talking into the fan, and tells Chilli she doesn’t want to brush her teeth as it’s boring. Chilli tells her that "boring things are important too", but Bluey denies it, to which Chilli tells her that she sounds like her father.
Bandit arrives with pool noodles to tell them that Uncle Stripe is in Bali, and they can use his pool. On the way out the door Chilli reminds them to get the pool bag and not to only pack the "fun stuff". However, Bluey and Bandit disregard this and yell, “BORING” in unison.
On the car trip over, Bluey complains that Chilli is a "fusspot" as she always makes them do “boring” things. However, on arrival at Uncle Stripe's house, the kids have forgotten their thongs (their sandals) due to denouncing them as boring, so Bandit has to lug them and the pool toys to the backyard.
Once at the pool they realize they’ve forgotten the rashies and sun cream because they also disregarded them for being "boring", so Bandit says they’ll just have to play in the shade. Bluey is fine with this and jumps in but Bingo doesn’t have her floaties, so she has to stay on the step and try to avoid the pool's cleaning device, which she is afraid of.
While playing jump the pool noodle, Bluey's eyes start to sting from the chlorine, but they don’t have the swim goggles either. Bluey wanted to play with the sinking toys, but she forgot them too. Bingo then yells for Bandit, as the cleaning device has cornered her on the steps; Bandit comes over and swats it away from her.
Eventually, the shade over the pool has receded to the point that only the stairs are shaded, and the girls start complaining about being hungry and bored until Bandit calls it a day. Unfortunately, there aren’t any towels so Bluey has to try to shake dry and Bingo refuses to get out of the pool until the cleaning device arrives, which causes her to rush out.
Just as the girls are pestering Bandit and deciding in actual fact, he is the boring one and Chilli is cool, Chilli arrives with the pool bag full of things Bandit and the girls initially denounced as "boring".
They have lunch in the cabana and jump back in the pool with floaties, goggles, rashies and diving “thingies” proving that “boring” is sometimes also “important”.
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Appearances[]
Characters[]
- Bluey
- Bingo
- Bandit
- Chilli
- Uncle Stripe (mentioned)
Locations[]
Trivia[]
- The leaflet that Chilli fans herself with to the beginning of the episode is that of the Chinese Restaurant in Takeaway.
- The sea horse in the title card appears in the episode as one of Bluey's sinking toys.
- Bluey sees her parents kissing while collecting the rings underwater.
- During CBeebies broadcasts in the UK, a section of the scene as the three Heelers arrive to the pool is cut.; this is the moment when Bandit asks Bluey if she has brought her thongs. The mosty likely reasons for the cut is due to thongs meaning different items of clothing in the UK (thongs refer to female underwear in British English, unlike how they refer to sandles in Australian English, as the episode intended).
- The Bluey ditty heard in this episode is played by an electric guitar to give an “Tropical” style.
- It is mentioned that Uncle Stripe had gone to Bali, and he had let Bandit and his family use his pool.
- When this episode aired on Disney Channel in the US, it was paired with Shops and Blue Mountains.
- The "What?!?" line that Bingo says is used again in Swim School.
- The water gun Bandit is carrying in the beginning of the episode bears an almost exact resemblance to the Splattershot from the video game Splatoon.
- On this episode's page on the official website, the character section has the girls in their swimsuits, Bandit diving under them, and Chilli wearing her sunhat and carrying the "boring stuff".
Watch[]
The full episode is available free-to-watch unedited, courtesy of the official Bluey YouTube channel:
